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AIG’s Quarterly Operating Loss Worse Than Expected; Share Buyback Accelerates
American International Group Inc, the biggest U.S. commercial insurer by premiums, reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly operating loss, hurt by weak underwriting and lower returns on investments ...
Insurers/Reinsurers Latest Casualties of Oil Price Slump as Premium Rates Plunge
The insurance industry is becoming the latest casualty of the oil price slump, with postponements and cancellations of energy projects forcing down premium rates and income in a market that was ...
Kemper P/C Group Head Exits After Division’s Q4 Operating Loss
Kemper Corp.'s Denise I. Lynch is leaving her position as Property/Casualty group executive, effective immediately, to pursue other opportunities, the insurer said. The news comes after Kemper ...
Zurich Announces New CEO Start Date; Q4 Loss Hits $424M
Zurich Insurance attempted to mollify investors on Thursday by bringing forward the start date for incoming Chief Executive Mario Greco and holding its dividend unchanged. But a steeper-than-expected ...
Lloyd’s, London Market Face Huge Uncertainty if UK Leaves EU
A UK exit from the European Union will create a "rarely experienced" level of uncertainty for Lloyd's, the London market as well as the UK and other European economies, according to Sean McGovern, ...
The Underwriting Staffing Challenge: Recruitment Strategies for a Vanishing Talent Pool
The war for talent has hit the insurance industry with incredible force. Having weathered the recent "Great Recession" with its record unemployment rates, company downsizings and mass professional ...
What P/C Insurance Industry Lobbyists Are Fighting for in 2016
Election year or not, P/C industry lobbyists are planning for a busy 2016 in Washington, D.C. The American Insurance Association and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies are among ...
CNA Lost $70M in Q4, Dragged Down by Life & Group Results
CNA Financial Corp. lost $70 million in its 2015 fourth quarter, an outcome shaped in part by declining investments and its Life & Group results. The Illinois-based property/casualty insurer ...